Education

• Bachelor in Policy Sciences (‘propedeuse’), Radboud University Nijmegen (1996)
• Master in Urban and Regional Planning ('doctoraal'), Radboud University Nijmegen (1999)
• Postgraduate research training in Housing, Urban and Transportation Studies, Delft University of Technology (2002)
• PhD in Urban and Regional Development, Delft University of Technology (2007)

Career

• Head of Section, Spatial Planning, Utrecht University (2025-)
• Associate professor, Human Geography and Spatial Planning, Utrecht University (2021 -)
• Research Director, Urbanism Department, Faculty of Architecture and the Built Environment, Delft University of Technology (2019-2020)
• Associate professor, Delft University of Technology, Faculty of Architecture and the Built Environment (2015-2020)
• Course coordinator, Amsterdam Institute for Advanced Metropolitan Solutions (2017-2020)
• Senior researcher, Delft University of Technology, OTB Research Institute OTB (2013–2015)
• Lecturer, University College Roosevelt (UU) (secondment) (2013)
• Programme manager, European Metropolitan network Institute (EMI), The Hague (secondment, 0.5 fte) (2011 – 2012)
• Researcher, Delft University of Technology, OTB Research Institute (2008–2012)
• PhD Researcher, Delft University of Technology, OTB Research Institute (2003-2007)
• Junior researcher, Delft University of Technology, OTB Research Institute (2000–2002)
• Junior researcher, Radboud University Nijmegen, Planning department (1999 – 2000)